Does anyone here have AT&T Fiber? I'm considering going with them and wondering how the premise install works. Do they leave fiber on a box and leave it to you to bring gig ethernet into your house, or did they install cabling into your house and leave you with a modem/router inside?


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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All <=-

Does anyone here have AT&T Fiber? I'm considering going with them and wondering how the premise install works. Do they leave fiber on a box
and leave it to you to bring gig ethernet into your house, or did they install cabling into your house and leave you with a modem/router
inside?

I don't have AT&T, but a local provider. They used a trenchless setup to bring the fiber to the access box on the side of my house. It plugs into an ISP owned 'router' that plugs into your CAT5 cabling. Then after that it's a matter of your preference on how you want it distributed around the house. My neighborhood had fiber already laid on the street so it was a quick install.

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calcmandan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I don't have AT&T, but a local provider. They used a trenchless setup
to bring the fiber to the access box on the side of my house. It plugs into an ISP owned 'router' that plugs into your CAT5 cabling.

How did they get from the box outside the house to the router on the inside
of the house?





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Re: Re: AT&T Fiber installation?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to calcmandan on Tue May 05 2020 07:14:00

calcmandan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I don't have AT&T, but a local provider. They used a trenchless setup to bring the fiber to the access box on the side of my house. It plugs into an ISP owned 'router' that plugs into your CAT5
cabling.

How did they get from the box outside the house to the router on the inside of the house?

When I had AT&T fiber they brought the fiber right in to the house mounted a pretty small box on the wall and this converted the fiber to copper and it need to be pluged in to power. I have also had FIOS which they mounted the box on the outside of the house and I had ran a cat5e cable out to their box.

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calcmandan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I don't have AT&T, but a local provider. They used a trenchless setup
to bring the fiber to the access box on the side of my house. It plugs into an ISP owned 'router' that plugs into your CAT5 cabling.

How did they get from the box outside the house to the router on the inside of the house?

The NID is outside in the box and connects to the pre-wired CatV at that access panel next to power. I have two punch panels in the house, one for each floor. I ensured that the PoE is in my den where my rack is.

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Re: AT&T Fiber installation?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Mon May 04 2020 06:45 am

Does anyone here have AT&T Fiber? I'm considering going with them and wondering how the premise install works. Do they leave fiber on a box and leave it to you to bring gig ethernet into your house, or did they install cabling into your house and leave you with a modem/router inside?

I am fairly certain they will wire fiber to your house and run a ethernet port to whatever room you want, and I guess you connect that to a fiber "modem".

My new place has an AT&T hookup, there's a cable that runs to an AT*T box on my home, then a ethernet cable runs to one of my bedrooms with a green ethernet port.

I tried to get fiber when I moved, but they insisted it wasn't availabe dispite the line being live (I probed it with a multimeter), so no idea what's up with that. I got comsuck for a year, 200/10 for $50/month, which I think is a ripoff. I'm trying to get them to work on my upspeed, because I want to livestream shit eventually.

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Re: AT&T Fiber installation?
By: Android8675 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed May 06 2020 07:21 am

I am fairly certain they will wire fiber to your house and run a ethernet port to whatever room you want, and I guess you connect that to a fiber "modem".

I took the easy way out and stuck with Comcast -- basic cable (the broadcast channels), 1 DVR, the Comcast Stream app, and 100 MB internet for $100/month.
Less unknowns, my house is already wired for cable, and there's no contract. It'll do until things settle down.

It ends up being about the same price as internet-only. They *really* don't want to lose cable TV subscribers.
I had some money left over from a payment for a Google user study I participated in, and bought a Roku for the kids' playroom. We'll do fine without the pay channels.

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Re: AT&T Fiber installation?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Android8675 on Wed May 06 2020 10:14 pm

I took the easy way out and stuck with Comcast -- basic cable (the broadcast channels), 1 DVR, the Comcast Stream app, and 100 MB internet for $100/month. Less unknowns, my house is already wired for cable, and there's no contract. It'll do until things settle down.

That sounds like a good deal, but honestly it's not paying money for cable I have the problem with, it's paying money to watch tv with commercials. When you have options like Netflix, I just can't sit through 20 minutes of commercials in a 40 minute show.

I guess it would be a good excuse to make my daughter go brush her teeth before bed, and local news I guess, but that's why I put in a terestriall antenna and roku has all the network news apps... I just can't bring myself to even hook up cable, BUT... all that said, I may have to get cable so I can get them to run a couple cable hookups to my garage. They don't seem willing to do that without a reason.

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Android8675 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I took the easy way out and stuck with Comcast -- basic cable (the broadcast channels), 1 DVR, the Comcast Stream app, and 100 MB internet for $100/month. Less unknowns, my house is already wired for cable, and there's no contract. It'll do until things settle down.

That sounds like a good deal, but honestly it's not paying money for
cable I have the problem with, it's paying money to watch tv with commercials. When you have options like Netflix, I just can't sit
through 20 minutes of commercials in a 40 minute show.

The nice thing is that there's no contract, and I've gotten to play with
some of the Roku options. There's Locast for local channels (we do watch
local news a lot) and there's a ton of free content out there that'll help
us save money.

I introduced my kids to MTS3K last night - Teenagers from Outer Space. They liked it a lot.

I guess it would be a good excuse to make my daughter go brush her
teeth before bed, and local news I guess, but that's why I put in a terestriall antenna and roku has all the network news apps...

I tried with an indoor amplified HDTV antenna. The scan didn't pick up any channels. :(




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